August 2014 Issue
August 2014
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of CompositesWorld
Event pavilion: SMC panels ensure architectural authenticity
To expand its services, the High Bullen golf and spa hotel in Devonshire, U.K., converts a little-used tennis facility into a flexible meetings facility, and kept the remodeled structure within the local "heritage" code with simulated mortared stone-like composite panels from Acell Industries Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland).
Read MoreHyperbaric chamber: Portable, pliable FRP handles pressure
Groupe Médical Gaumond Inc. (GMG, Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada) premieres HematoCare, its portable, collapsible composite hyperbaric chamber.
Read MoreIBEX 2014 Preview
After four years inland, boatbuilders head southeast to put in, dockside, in Tampa Bay.
Read MoreMass reduction for mass appeal: FRPs and CMCs in RVs
Composites save weight, speed assembly, improve aesthetics and diminish warranty service and promote sales.
Read MoreSolar boat: Bonding the best
Adhesives supplier SCIGRIP (Durham, N.C.) sponsors the entry from Poland, dubbed the SCIGRIP Solar Boat, during the fifth Dong Energy Solar Challenge for boats, held June 28 to July 5, in The Netherlands.
Read MoreThe Odd Couple
CT editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan draws attention to the disappearing gap between the composites industry's once widely separated "aerospace-grade" and "industrial-grade" sectors.
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